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Policy Briefs

Disseminating research success through policy

Getting policy insights at a glance, discovering thought-provoking results and comparisons in Europe, checking quickly a methodology. This is why the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) programme publishes policy briefs: to communicate research results in a structured way in only a few pages.


ELDIA -Policy implications of ELDIA, an EU-funded research project on multilingualism, vehicular languages and linguistic diversity in Europe (February 2012) ( 628KB)

RESPECT Project - Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect (December 2011) ( 3.62MB)

An EU-funded research project on the policies of urban regeneration in the areas inhabited by minorities
RESPECT Project - Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect (December 2011) ( 547KB)

An EU-funded research project on the debates about the construction of mosques in Europe
RESPECT Project - Towards a Topography of Tolerance and Equal Respect (December 2011) ( 554KB)

An EU-funded research project on the discrimination of Roma in the public space
ASSPRO CEE 2007 (December 2011 ( 1.33MB)

Can patients in Central and Eastern European countries cope with increased charges for public health care services?
INCLUD-ED: Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from Education (November 2011)( 452KB)

An EU-funded research project exploring successful actions for educational and social inclusion in Europe

INFU - Innovation futures in Europe - A foresight exercise on emerging patterns of innovation. Visions, scenarios and implications for policy and practice (September 2011) ( 292KB)

FAMILYPLATFORM - Family wellbeing - A challenge for policy and research (June 2011) ( 186KB)

Policy implications of FAMILYPLATFORM, a social platform involving 12 partners and over 170 experts and stakeholders from policy, civil society and research organisations.
MEDIADEM – European media policies revisited: Valuing and reclaiming free and independent media in contemporary democratic systems (June 2011) ( 170KB)

Policy implications of MEDIADEM, an EU-funded research project on media policies in 14 countries for media freedom and independence
GILDED - Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities (June 2011)
( 199KB)
AUGUR – The world of finance 2030 (June 2011) ( 133KB)
INGINEUS - Challenges and barriers of European firms in global innovation networks (June 2011) ( 204KB)
MediaACT - Media Accountability in the Internet Age (June 2011) ( 524KB)

Policy implications of MediaACT (Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe), an EU-funded research project comparing media accountability instruments across Europe.
MEDIA&CITIZENSHIP – Transnational television cultures: reshaping political identities in the European Union (May 2011)
( 202KB)

Policy implications of Media & Citizenship, an EU-funded research project exploring television use and cultural belonging among Arabic speakers in seven European countries.
CHINA EU STANDARDS - China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership (March 2011) ( 214KB)

The People’s Republic of China has recently begun to be remarkably active in many areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) interoperability standards as part of an effort to promote "indigenous technologies". This raises important challenges for China which, despite possessing strong manufacturing capabilities, has limited experience in international standardisation and in ICT innovation.
SELUSI - Social Entrepreneurs as Lead Users for Service Innovation (March 2011) ( 136KB)
DERREG - Developing Europe’s Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization (March 2011) ( 1.58MB)
EDUMIGROM - Ethnic Differences in Education for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe (March 2011) ( 108KB)

An EU-funded research project investigating the impact of educational policies on Roma and second-generation migrant youth in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
YIPPEE – Young people from a public care background: pathways to education in Europe (February 2011) ( 123KB)

The first comparative study of young people who have been in state care as children and their post-compulsory education.
CAP-IRE - Assessing the multiple impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on rural economies (January 2011)
( 416KB)

This policy brief reports results and policy implications from the project CAP-IRE, coordinated by University of Bologna including partners from 8 countries.
POLINARES - Competing for Natural Resources: Conflict and Cooperation (January 2011) ( 136KB)

An EU-funded research project exploring global challenges in the competition for natural resources and proposing new approaches to collaborative solutions.
ASSPRO - Informal patient payments for health care services: policy challenges and solutions (December 2010) ( 120KB)

Preliminary findings of ASSPRO CEE 2007, an EU-funded research project assessing efficiency and impact of patient payment policies in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine.
ASSPRO - Patient payments in Central and Eastern Europe: The opinions of health care stakeholders (December 2010)
( 248KB)

Preliminary findings of ASSPRO CEE 2007, an EU-funded research project assessing efficiency and impact of patient payments policies in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine
PIQUE - Privatisation and Liberalisation of Public Services - Improving the Regulatory Framework (May 2010) ( 242KB)
FINESS - Financial Integration in Europe: Strength in Diversity (May 2010) ( 220KB)
FACIT - Faith-based organisations and social exclusion in European cities (November 2010) ( 138KB)
INFU - Innovation futures in Europe: A foresight exercise on emerging patterns of innovation. Visions, scenarios and implications for policy and practice (October 2010) ( 466KB)
INGINEUS - European firms' reasons for taking part in global innovation networks (September 2010) ( 251KB)

An EU-funded research project involving 13 organisations, partly from emerging countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa)
FINNOV - Do financial markets reward innovation? (Spring 2010) ( 134KB)
CRIME & CULTURE - Seeing corruption. Comparative research on perceptions of corruption in Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Romania, Turkey and the United Kingdom (April 2010) ( 216KB)
KASS - Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe (March 2010) ( 268KB)
UP2YOUTH - Youth - Actor of social change (March 2010)
( 215KB)
INNODRIVE - Intangible capital and innovations: drivers of growth and location in the EU (December 2009) ( 1.22MB)
INGINEUS - Impact of networks, globalisation, and their interaction with EU strategies (November 2009) ( 459KB)
EMILIE - A European approach to multicultural citizenship legal political and educational challenges (November 2009) ( 398KB)
GILDED - Governance, infrastructure, lifestyle dynamics and energy demand: European post-carbon communities (October 2009) ( 257KB)
KATARSIS - Tackling Social Exclusion through Social Innovation: Strategy Research Options (October 2009) ( 211KB)
WORKS - Work organisation and restructuring in the knowledge society (September 2009) ( 185KB)
PLATON+ - Strengthening the role that Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH) have on the ERA development by reinforcing interactions between SSH and non-SSH research communities (June 2009) ( 240KB)
SOCCOH - Social Capital and Cohesion: Towards a Common Good (June 2009) ( 434KB)
CRIMPREV - Measurement of crime and evaluation of public policies of prevention and security (June 2009) ( 160KB)
SERVPPIN - The contribution of public and private services to European growth and welfare, and the role of public-private innovation networks (April 2009) ( 1.09MB)
INEQ - Inequality: mechanisms, effects and policies (March 2009) ( 1MB)
EMEDIATE - Media and ethics of a European public sphere from the Treaty of Rome to the "War on Terror" (February 2009)
( 890KB)
CBCED - Challenges and prospects of cross border co-operation in the context of EU enlargement society (December 2008)
( 1MB)
JOBMOB & FAMLIVES - Job mobilities and family lives in Europe: modern mobile living and its relation to quality of life (December 2008) ( 763KB)
SS-ERC - Project on social sciences and European research capacities (October 2008) ( 1.15MB)
KEINS - Knowledge-based entrepreneurship: innovation, networks and systems (November 2008) ( 847KB)